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Chris Storb isa conservator of furniture
and woodwork at the Philadelphia Museum of
Art For 25 years he has studied, restored, con-
served and made furniture and wooden objects
Storb specialized in the restoration of 17th-,
18th- and 19th-century American furniture ina
private practice, which he established and suc-
cessfully maintained for 15 years before joining
the museum staff
Recently, he began co-authoring a series of
articles on the life and work of the English-born
joiner John Head (1688-1754), who arrived in
Philadelphia in 1717
In this issue, Arts & Mysteries author Adam
Cherubini tapped Chris for his expertise and
help in carving a ball and claw foot (page 22)
Keith Neer For the last 37 years, Keith
has “practiced” the craft of woodworking and
made numerous family pieces of furniture
with an occasional commission pie
in In 2005 he retired from industry to follow
adream and started Clermont Woodworking
and Design
Since retirement Keith has worked full time
as a furniture designer and builder He restores
heirloom furniture and teaches woodworking
at local retailers and in his shop outside
Cincinnati You can see his work and his shop
at Clermontwoodworking.com
thrown
Mario Rodriguez has more than 30 years
of experience as a woodworking teacher, writer
and builder, After earning a bachelor’s degree
in art and applied design and completing his
apprenticeship, he established his own shop
in Brooklyn, NY., and worked with the area’s
leading architects, designers and collectors His
work has been featured in a number of publica-
tions, including Architectural Digest and The New
York Times
After teaching for almost 18 years in the
Restoration Department at the New York-based
Fashion Institute of Technology, Mario now
teaches at the Philadelphia Furniture Workshop
(philadelphiafurnitureworkshop.com)
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BY CHRISTOPHER SCHWARZ, EDITOR
The Map is Not
The Territory
FV conege piotessor who taught Zen
Buddhism once told me the following odd
story about a test he gave to his students
The test had only one question: “Explain
the nature of Zen Buddhism.”
All the students scribbled furiously for
acouple hours to answer it—except for one
exam Atthe end of the two hours he turned
in his blue examination booklet
Except for the student’s name on the
front, his test booklet was empty
The professor
thought about this
then gave the fol-
lowing grade:
forcontent And “F”
for grammar
The process of
learning wood-
with odd dichoto-
mies like this On the one hand, you can
take itallin
And yet you will then know nothing of
woodworking
Atthe same time, it’s troubling when you
meet woodworkers who have been build-
grasp of the complexity of the craft
True story: | once met a career cabi-
netmaker in Indiana who showed me his
work When we were examining pie safe
he pointed out how the panel in the door
problem he had all the time
“No matter how many nails I use, the
panel still cracks,” he told me “Big nails,
little nails, nothing works.”
Work itself will also give you nothing
10 m Popular Woodworking February 2009
Last weekend we finished up our first- ever Woodworking in America conference (go to our web site for photos, stories and Abunch of PowerPoint presentations And from the price ofan 18th-century chisel to furniture design
But what was really amazing for me was to hear the words, read the text and
watched Contrib- uting Editor Adam achisel it was like
kissing an electri-
cal outlet Wow
it tis simplerthan Ithought When I came home and tried it myself, | fumbled a bit But aftera few min- was my studying, my observations or the act of sharpening that made the edge keen
Itjust clicked
So here's the point: You need to do three things to really master a skill Read about woodworking to understand the rules
Watch someone else do the task so you can see how fluid the body mechanics can be And then doit
But be prepared for your skill to come
from some place undefinable
As Juvenal, a Roman satirist, put it: “I cannot describe it, | can only feel it.” PW
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FROM OUR READERS
Moulding Cutterhead
Another Way to Trim Flush
| would like to comment on the “Flush-cutting Jig” article (Popular
Woodworking November 2008, issue #172) This article presents a
unique solution to an often-incurred problem, and I will try iton my
next project involving solid-wood edging surrounding a plywood
to spend more money ona stacked dado blade set than I spent on my
table saw, Ihave yet to produce asmooth, flat-bottomed dado I suggest
using a moulding cutterhead installed on the saw, usinga 1"-wide set
of planer cutters In my experience, this setup is far superior to any
stacked dado set and is far cheaper, to boot
— Carl Carlman, Dearborn, Michigan
Amoulding cutterhead with the appropriate knives will do the job However,
stacked dado set is more than likely going to be part of one’s inventory
Also, I question the results from a three-knife cut from the moulding head
versus the smoothness of a dado stack And pricing is not all that different
between the two products if you do need to make a purchase
Of course, one benefit of a moulding cutterhead is that you can also
purchase additional knife profiles to make mouldings Some woodworkers
prefer that moulding method to a router table
—Glen D Huey, senior editor
Are Published Furniture Plans
Fair Game for Manufacture?
Thank you for running Jon Shackelford’s
article, “Copying Famous Furniture,” in the
November 2008 issue (#172) Butit leaves me
with questions:
One of Shackelford’s examples is Moser’s
continuous arm chair Moser, as have others,
published a book on the techniques, dimen-
sionsand drawings necessary to produce his
chair; and his book includes instructions
manufacture the chair | have his book Do
chairs formy personal use? Doeshis including
the production tooling designs permit me to
manufacture the chair?
12 m Popular Woodworking February 2009
Also, does the owner ofan antique have the
right to prohibit others from reproducingit? (I
had thought so, but the article suggests not.)
For example, ifa museum ownsand displays
an 18th-century Windsor chairand permits any right to prohibit me from producing or
manufacturingit? Ifso, would the piece’s fame
affect that answer — for example, consider the iconic Pennsylvania Dutch dowry chest
measured drawing to be taken and published
affect that answer?
—Larry Root, via e-mail
It does appear to give mixed signals when inno- vators (such as Thos Moser in your example)
ef protect their designs with patents (or trademarks
or copyrights) and at the same time teach people howto reproduce them ina how-to book or article Speaking generally, however, an author/inventor (like Moser and others in his league) does not automatically license the reader to make and sell proprietary designs (I say “generally” because any given situation might turn on peculiar facts.)
I suggest that you first check the fine print in the publication you are following If it does not
have a disclaimer or express permission state-
ment of some kind, then assume the worst — the author/inventor has not abandoned their intel- market and sell your reproductions, then you might reduce risk by sending the author/inventor
CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
NLUSTRATIONBY HAVESSHANESY
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aproblem Otherwise, prepare for the possibil-
threat and come after you Of course, if you build
the reproduction furniture for personal use only,
the risk is quite low (Just for the record — Mr
Moser, if you are reading this, please call before
be a few pieces I'll need to hide.) On the other
hand, if I were counseling the author/inventor,
stating which furniture pieces are proprietary,
that buying the book conveys no license, and that
permission to sell a reproduction furniture design
must be obtained from the author
Regarding your second question, I will assume
that the antique is more than 20 years old and has
no vestige of enforceable copyright or trademark
elements In that case, which would be typical of
most antiques, neither the owner of the antique
nora museum displaying it can prohibit you from
reproducing it
—Jon Shackelford
Artvs Utility in Copyright Laws;
And Who Holds the Plan Rights?
Jon Shackelford's intellectual property article
was nicely written and long overdue The
question that I’ve heard most often from read-
ers, though, is whether it’s legal or illegal to
make a production item from plans that have
been published ina magazine [couldn't con-
nect the dots on that one, based on the article
as written I don't know how Popular Wood-
working handles copyright issues on pieces
designed by outside authors Who keeps the
rights to the design? Is it understood that, by
publishing his plans, the author is undermin-
Is the reader entitled to make knockoffs for
would have been interested to hear Shack-
elford’s take on these questions
Thereisalsoalong-runningdisputeamong
some of the well-known turners regarding
plagiarism of bowl designs and decorative
techniques I've never understood whether
atechnique, such as pyrography, especially
when the innovator teaches his techniquesand
style sensibilities to students James Krenov
has tread on similarly shaky ground, spawn-
ing a generation of imitators
Ellis Wallentine,
owner of WoodCentral.com
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 From the magazine’s point of view, once we publish plans that have been developed by our employees, we think they're fair game from which know that Vietnamese companies have copied results for sale
— Christopher Schwarz, editor
To my knowledge, unless the plan designer is an employee, a magazine that prints plans for a furniture piece does not typically acquire own- ership of the underlying copyright in the plans, nor in any other intellectual property rights the author may possess in the actual furniture design
The mere act of publishing discoveries does not undermine proprietary rights If that were the case, research universities would not routinely scholarly journals
Regarding bowl designs and decorative tech- niques yoursisa tricky legal question because rather, it is a utilitarian object like a lamp base against granting copyright registrations for things that are useful (like bowls and chairs) However,
an original engraving or paint scheme, would
be copyrightable as a stand-alone work of art
Although the shape of a bowl is almost certainly not copyrightable, the originator could turn (pun intended) to design patent laws for protection
When you speak of “style sensibilities” and
Krenov, keep in mind also that identifiable
features that are characteristic to a person or group couldin theory be protected as trademarks, provided there is a continuous effort to prevent
“style sensibilities” become ubiquitous, it will
be too late for the originator to establish trade- mark rights
—Jon Shackelford
Clarification: ‘Greene & Greene:
Details and Joinery’
We omitted photo credits fortwo pieces in the
“Greene & Greene: Detailsand Joinery” article
inthe October 2008 issue (#171) The Blacker livingroom armchair and the Culbertson sis-
at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The credit lines should have read: “Blacker
armchair: Los Angeles County Museum of
Art, Gift of Max Palevsky and Jodie Evans” and
“Culbertson bookcase: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Linda and James Ries
in memory of Dorothy and Harold Shrier.”
To see many more pieces in the collec- tion at LACMA visit its web site at collections online.lacma.org
Correction:
Colonial-era Plate Rack
In the November 2008 issue (#172), the
length of the “long shelves” in Kerry Pierce's
in the cutlist The length should be 377/s",
not 501⁄4", PW
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EDITED BY PAUL ANTHONY
THE WINNER:
A Hoseline Clothesline
tL nothing more annoying thana vacuum
hose dragging on the bench when you're working
witha router, sander or other power tool These
big hoses always seem to hang up on workpieces
and tangle with tools on the bench | finally founda
cheap, easy solution in the form ofa $15 clothesline
retractor available at home centers Attach vacuum hose
Attach the unitto the ceiling and pull outenough to overhead clothesline
line to create the necessary tension to carry your retractor:
vacuum hose (The more line you pull out, the stron-
ger the retraction force.) You can cut offany excess
hook because the cord will zip back into the case!
Now your vz
proper height above you Whether you're working
uum hose will stay suspendedat the
down on the benchtop or working up high onatall
piece, the hose simply moves out of the way
—Dennis Kugizaki,
Colorado Springs, Colorado A
in
o>
Making Good Use
of a Negative
When cutting a hardboard template to use for a
outline can be used asa mask to view and compose
anice grain pattern on the stock before attaching the
positive section to the workpiece for machining
—Barry Burke Jr., Middletown, Connecticut
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Magnetic Dust Gate Control
For my dust-collection system, | use standard metal dust
gates with aluminum housingsand steel blades [always
found it aggravating that adjusting the gates was a two-
handed operation involving loosening and tightening
thumb screws to hold the gates open or closed Fortu-
turns out that a few rare: against
the housing will holda gate in any position you like while
two 1"-diameter magnets or four '/2"-diameter magnets
do the job nicely
arth magnets plac:
— Dave Owen, Lakeland, Florida
Steel dust gate
Rare-earth
magnets
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Safe Sawing of Round Stock
Large dowels, plastic pipe or other round stock can be cut neatly and squarely ona power miter saw, but the operation can be a bit tricky If you don't hold round material can spin out of control
One approach isto make a V-shaped cradle to hold the workpiece, but there's
an easier way I simply stick a couple pieces of self-adhesive sandpaper to the fence and table Pressing the stock firmly against the sandpaper prevents it from spinning, making fora safe cut
—James Wayland, Redwood City, California
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